Virginia Spring Cleaners 2021

Profile managers: Sandy Patak [send private message], Deena Cross [send private message], Mary Hatcher [send private message], Bill Vincent [send private message], Liz Shifflett [send private message], Karen Stewart [send private message], Nancy Thomas [send private message], Gurney Thompson [send private message], Ellen Steger [send private message], Anne Guglik [send private message], Cheryl Hess [send private message], Chris Brady [send private message], Sherrie Mitchell [send private message], Melissa Gebhardt [send private message], Karen Wood [send private message], Amanda Torrey [send private message], Mindy Silva [send private message], Rosetta Link [send private message], and Donna Rand [send private message]

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Spring of 2021 Thon

You know it's Spring in Virginia when the daffodils, dogwoods, and redbuds are in bloom.

Welcome to the 2021 "Spring Clean-a-Thon"!

Clean-a-Thon Information

2021 banner

I hope you're getting excited already for the 2021 Clean-a-Thon! This will be the fifth ever Clean-a-Thon and we are hoping to do an awesome job again of improving profiles by cleaning them up. This year's Clean-a-Thon runs from April 23rd to April 26th. Keep that weekend free for a weekend full of cleaning fun!

Take a look at the Clean-a-Thon help if you are new at this to see more about registering, teams, participating, tracking and badges.

Virginia Spring Cleaners

Welcome to the 2021 Clean-a-Thon!

The Leaders for the 2021 Virginia Cleaners are:

• Captain: Mindy Silva
• Captain: Sandy Patak

We're your head cheerleaders, but I encourage everyone to play cheerleader to fellow members of Team Virginia! You can chat and cheer in our Google Chat Group.

The purpose of the Clean-a-Thon is to clear Suggestions from as many profiles as possible. Our wonderful Data Doctors team does this throughout the year but the big push in the spring is such a fun and rewarding challenge!

Last update Monday 8am EDT

Warning: I tend to forget to update the time on this one (wink)
but the totals get updated when the Team Stats do

Join our Team

Whether you are new to the team or a returning Virginia challenge veteran - you are welcome! We like to cheer each other on and make a good stand for those Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky profiles. No worries though, if you have ancestors in other areas you are free to work on those too. Let's make this another fun challenge! .

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Sign up for the 2021 Clean-a-Thon now!! (Closed)

Members Registered

1. Mindy Silva Captain   registration post
2. Rosetta Link   registration post
3. William Foster   registration post
4. Anne Guglik   registration post
5. Sandy Patak Captain   registration post
6. Nancy Thomas   registration post
7. Deena Cross   registration post
8. Liz Shifflett   registration post
9. Cheryl Hess   registration post
10. Amanda Torrey   registration post
11. Bill Vincent   registration post
12. Donna Rand   registration post
13. Melissa Gebhardt   registration post
14. Gurney Thompson   registration post
15. Ellen Steger   registration post
16. Karen Stewart   registration post
17. Mike Patak   registration post
18. Pam Dale   registration post
19. Sherrie Mitchell   registration post
20. Robin Baker   registration post
21. Mary Hatcher   registration post
22. Chris Brady   registration post
23. Karen Wood   registration post

Team Virginia Information

Other "Team Virginia" pages:

• The Virginia Spring Cleaners, from the 2020 Clean-a-Thon
• The Virginia Challengers for team participation in challenges taking place throughout the year.
• Our Challenge Chat in Google Groups is still active. Cheer each other on and chat during the Thon. Rock it Team Virginia!
• Additional pages are listed under Category:Virginia Challenge Teams

... ... ... participated with Team Virginia during the 2021 Clean-a-Thon.

... ... ... participated with Team Virginia during the 2021! Clean-a-Thon.correcting 99 suggestions.We cleaned 11,253 suggestions & finished in 3rd place!

Plan of Action

Work on database suggestions for

• Virginia
• West Virginia
• Kentucky
• Or ~ your region of choice

1. Click one of the links above (Virginia, West Virginia, or Kentucky) and pick a Suggestion you want to work on. If you aren't familiar with a Suggestion you need to work on you can ask me or the others during the Thon.
2. Address the suggestion (i.e., fix the date error)
3. Update the status

Additional actions (optional - slows you down a bit, but will help improve WikiTree profiles)

1. If the profile has insufficient or no sources, add {{Unsourced|<Location>}}, e.g., {{Unsourced|Virginia}} - you can add up to two locations with that template, for example {{Unsourced|England|Virginia}} for a person born in England who died in Virginia.
2. If a county is mentioned in the profile, add the county category. For example:

• [[Category:Stafford County, Virginia]]

The main category pages for Category:Virginia, Category:West Virginia, and Category:Kentucky list current county categories.

Important:

• In the Errors (Suggestions) list: Be sure to use the Status button:
  • Before checking the profile, check the status to see if the error has already been corrected.
  • After correcting the error (or posting a comment if you cannot edit the profile), update the status so that others coming across the error will know.
• On a profile: Always include the error number in the explanation for your change(s): e.g., "corrected database error 603 - and added county category".

Help?

To talk to "just us", post a comment to this page or, when we're closer to the event, we'll have a G2G post where we can chat. You can post separately to G2G for a wider audience: tag your question with virginia and db_errors at least. For questions about the Clean-a-Thon, use the tag clean-a-thon.

How Does this Work?

Try the tutorial: Spring_Clean-a-Thon_Tutorial

Check your own tree: On your profile page, under your WikiTree ID (at the upper right, in the mini-menu), the dropdown menu has "Suggestions" - click on that and see if there's anything that shows up you could practice on.

Check on profiles you manage: Go to https://plus.wikitree.com/default.htm & put your WikiTree ID in the "Managed by" field.

Database Errors

In 2017 we focused on "USA too early..." but a lot of those have now been cleaned. You should be able to replace the number in the URL to find the space page for any dbe. You can work on one specific error if you would like, instead of a state or region. The following still have plenty of Suggestions.

DBE 205: Father is too young or not born db_error_205

DBE 603: USA too early in birth location db_error_603

DBE 612: Location too early in death location db_error_612

DBE 803: Almost empty profile db_error_803

DBE 811: Uncleaned profile after merge db_error_811

DBE 831: Multiple duplicated lines db_error_831

All Errors

For a table with all errors, everywhere, click the link in the big green box at the top of this page -

All Errors - Virginia

All Errors - West Virginia

All Errors - Kentucky

Don't forget to use the Status button!

2020 Clean-a-thon Team Virginia Members

If you want a nickname, or want yours changed - let me know! We're here to have fun

List Number	Photo	Name	Nickname	See your contributions	Total Suggestions Fixed
1		Mindy Silva	Gedcom Granny	See your work	2,013
2		Nancy Thomas	Nickname	See your work	403
3		Rosetta Link	Racing Rosetta	See your work	2,467
4		Anne Guglik	Nickname	See your work	128
5		Sandy Patak	Superstar Sandy	See your work	3,003
6		William Foster	Nickname	See your work	99
7		Deena Cross	Nickname	See your work	219
8		Cheryl Hess	Cheri Blossom	See your work	3,014
9		Amanda Torrey	Nickname	See your work	89
10		Bill Vincent	Bad Boy Bill	See your work	2,062
11		Liz Shifflett	Lightweight Lizzie	See your work	524
12		Donna Rand	Nickname	See your work	12
13		Melissa Gebhardt	Nickname	See your work	48
14		Gurney Thompson	Gentle Gurney	See your work	129
15		Ellen Steger	Elegant El	See your work	144
16		Karen Stewart	Nickname	See your work	524
17	Image:Patak-6.jpg	Mike Patak	Nickname	See your work	3,003
18		Pam Dale	Nickname	See your work	457
19		Sherrie Mitchell	Nickname	See your work	399
20		Robin Baker	Nickname	See your work	6
21		Mary Hatcher	Merry Mary	See your work	43
22		Chris Brady	Nickname	See your work	225
23		Karen Wood	Nickname	See your work	29

Note: These totals are updated manually by me - once an hour as I can (if I'm awake). They are not automatically updated, see the Tracking Page if you want your current total. Thank you for your patience! And Rock On Team Virginia!!!

Last updated: Monday 8am EDT

(If the main tracker isn't updating: As long as you are selecting those statuses they will count and will show up when Aleš restarts the main tracker.)